Some Red-Handed Sleight Of Hand - Hawks 4, Flames 1 - Hawks win series 4 games to 2
by McClure on Apr 28, 2009 1:34 AM CDT
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PrintIn order to advance in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, sometimes your goaltender just has to flat-out steal a game, and tonight Nikolai Khabibulin did just that. Khabby turned away 43 of 44 shots, and the lone goal he let in was somewhat fluky. No matter, as Sam said numerous times during the game "They don't ask how, they ask how many".
Once again, the Flames came out overly energized and looking to establish a physical tone, and once again, it led to a numbskull penalty, this time courtesy of professional dickhole Todd Bertuzzi needlessly elbowing Brent Seabrook. The second power play unit wasted little time, as Patrick Kane buried a shot at a gaping net off of a broken play that started with Kris Versteeg attempting to get the puck to Dustin Byfuglien with a goal-mouth pass from the left half-wall.
Byfuglien shortly thereafter, still drunk off of his realization that no one can knock him off the puck when he gives a shit, circled the Flames net after breaking the puck in one against three, and found Adam Burish streaking down the slot late, who then smoked it by Kiprusoff, compounding his shame factor for the series ten-fold.
That would end up being all the Hawks would need, though Campbell made the Flames pay for a too-many-men penalty after some nice board work by Kane, and Byfuglien had the capper with the empty netter.
The real story tonight was Nik and the defense.
Everyone knew that the Flames would come out full throttle, and Khabby had just about every answer. When he had problems controlling his rebounds in the first, the defenseman and back-checking forwards were there to clear loose pucks, even if it was only to regain center ice and dump the puck in. And aside from the hiccup on the Bertuzzi shot, Nik absorbed everything that came toward him. High marks need to also be given to Hjalmarsson and Walker (yes, Matt Walker), who both had an exemplary night in their own corners fishing pucks out and evading wave upon wave of Calgary forecheckers. And while the Flames clearly outshot the Hawks even without knowing the final count (Ed Note: Hawks-16-, Flames-44 hoo-lee shit), the Flames never had any real second or third opportunities at the net, which was the ultimate key to victory in this game.
So now the Hawks will meet the Vancouver Canucks as a result of San Jose once again filling their diapers, this time against the Anaheim Ducks. If the last two games against the Nucks are any indication of what's in store for the Hawks, fucking strap in. It's going to be a struggle. The Hawks got past the Flames on what few would argue as their best effort. Anything less than that will result in a quick ousting at the hands of the Canucks. Bodies in front of Luongo will be absolutely paramount, but the matchup of Sammy Pahlsson against the Sedins will be a very close second. Last time Phalsson was given that assignment, he found a way to frustrate them- here's hoping he can do so again.
Enjoy this one tonight, Blackhawks Nation. But tomorrow a far more difficult challenge arises. Here's hoping the Men of Four Feathers are up to it.
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Congrats!
Much respect to your skilled young team, Chicago. I look forward to playing you next round. Should be some good hockey. May the best team win, and may that team be the Canucks!
by Beantown Canuck on Apr 28, 2009 1:29 AM CDT reply actions
Hawks Win!!
I am new to your brotherhood, and also twice your senior But I used to live in Lincoln Village at western and wilson in the 80’s when I was also in my 20’s. Great place to be. So glad to hear that you met for drinks at the hoffenwhatver. I am now married and drifted far south..Mokena Ill..that is Indian for Mud-Turtle..or fish turd..whatever..glad to see the Hawks pull this one off. I am glad to see that Rocky is turning this around..no matter what happens,this team is already a success. Hopefully we catch a too rested Vancouver team.
Where in the Hell
is Mokena? I thought I was far south being in Decatur!
by burpchelischili on Apr 28, 2009 5:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Mokena
is right next to Tinley Park and the Orland Park area…still actually considered “Chicagoland”
Joliet is farther south than Mokena…so, yes Decatur, is still much farther south.
"What the hell, let's review it." - Dale Tallon
"They are!" - Pat Foley
"What a farce." - Dale Tallon
So I still lose!!
I wasn’t real happy with my place in Chicago, but The Heights are a lot closer than Decatur
by burpchelischili on Apr 28, 2009 6:20 PM CDT up reply actions
That Buff-to-Burish goal was so pretty
I wonder how Buff will play next year now that we (and he) realize(s) that he’s still capable of being good. If we see the same Buff that we did in the ‘08-’09 regular season, I think we have even more grounds to be pissed at his lazy ass.
NOW STOP IT RIGHT HERE
On TSN last night, Pierre Maguire was saying that Buff has been taking a lot of direction from Pahlsson since the deadline, and credits Sammy with the surge in his game and confidence.
Maguire was also saying that he hadn’t heard much at all from Pahlsson through the series until last night, but when the Flames came on in the second Pahlsson was playing the role of player-coach, talking to everyone, sometimes player by player, getting them to calm down and just play their game.
I hate Maguire, I think he’s one of the shittiest announcers in the game, but it was kinda cool hearing that.
Canucks
Let’s get the skinny on Vancouver posted asap slackers!!! I need to know what Loungo eats for breakfast, whether or not the Sedins swap wives, how many goals Jesus H will score…etc etc
by Who'syourKhabby on Apr 28, 2009 6:56 AM CDT reply actions
Easy there, killer.
the three-headed Mattsammatt monster will have previews out the ass, probably later today. They have jobs, you know (at least I think they do… I wonder about Matt Chicagokill sometimes)
NOW STOP IT RIGHT HERE
Beware the awesome power of the hair pull
Canucks in 5.
You poor Hawks fans don’t have a clue what you’re in for. Mua ha ha ha!
Reading is a skill
Did you even read anything above, or were you just here to talk trash out your ass?
If the last two games against the Nucks are any indication of what’s in store for the Hawks, fucking strap in. It’s going to be a struggle. The Hawks got past the Flames on what few would argue as their best effort. Anything less than that will result in a quick ousting at the hands of the Canucks.
I think most sensible Hawks fans realize that this is going to be a very tough series.
Fuck off hippy.
Give us our moment in the sun.
I was going to post earlier about how I think its funny how seriously you all are taking superstitions. But now the Hawks are 2-0 when I catch the game at West End, listening to Gene Hondas manly voice on the PA. So looks like I’m going to be spending a lot more money there the next few weeks.
Got more soul than a sock with a hole.
Nice reading comprehension corkey
It’s nice to see your awesome picture accompanying your sweet post.
by Bad Ass Burish on Apr 28, 2009 12:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Of course I read the damned post
But nothing is going to stop me from an opportunity at Evil Laugh.
Mua ha ha ha!
And now we enter Coach Q’s nemesis…the 2nd round. As a head coach he has been to the 2nd round 6 different times. He has only gotten through it once (only to lose to the Avs in the WCF). Gonna be a tough series, but I hope the Hawks can survive. At this point, you have to say the season has been a success and something to build on…despite what happens in the 2nd round.
True, but I’d like to see some broader stats. Of coaches, for instance, who’ve made it to the 2nd round 6 times or more, how many times have they then gone on to the third round? One in six isn’t ideal, but making it to the conference finals isn’t exactly easy. Obviously, only 4 teams out of 30 get there. So Coach Q is 1 in 6; I bet there aren’t many who are 50% in that category, if any at all.
And if (IF!) this year were to put his record at 1 in 7, does the blame fall on his shoulders for not taking the youngest team in the NHL to the conference finals? No, of course not … but next year, all the same, everyone will be abuzz about Q advancing only one in seven times.
I don’t think this stat says a lot, not with 30 teams, not with it being so difficult a task to advance to the semi-final round.
Of coachs that made it to the 2nd round, exactly 50% of them make it to the 3rd round. That is a given. So Q’s 16% isn’t very immpressive. Even though only 4 of 30 teams make it to the conferance finals, your chances should be right around 50% once you make it to the conference semifinal. Obviously the team you are coaching has a ton to do with the result, so hopefully the Hawks are good enough to advance
by ChargingMajor on Apr 28, 2009 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Of course, I understand that of x number of teams in any round, half of the coaches will make it through any given year. But that doesn’t say anything about true likelihood of someone advancing. anyway, what I meant was, of the coaches themselves … say, what’s Bowman’s record for the percentage of times he made won a first round, a second round, etc.
You’re right, Q’s 16% doesn’t sound very impressive, but how many times was he coaching a 7th or 8th seed? Were there major injuries? Etc. I don’t think even in later rounds you can say a team’s chances should be around 50 percent; and the chances would drop accordingly, I should think, as a lower seed on the road, etc., etc.
There are just so many mitigating factors in any given series any given year. Would it be better for him to be 5 of 6 instead of 1 of 6? Ya, sure, but the fact that he’s 1 in 6 doesn’t tell me anything at all all about his playoff coaching prowess.
so...
Did anyone sleep last night? I pretty much didn’t. Watch the end of the San Jose self immolation and was then too hyped about the second round and all to do much of anything related to sleep.
by runningquicklynowhere on Apr 28, 2009 10:07 AM CDT reply actions
man, I was just hyped up I guess
haven’t been this happy with the hawks in a long, long time
by runningquicklynowhere on Apr 28, 2009 7:04 PM CDT up reply actions
You know why we're going to win
Cause Burish loves to eat snatch.
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"Oh, that's easy. White Sox. I'm not one of these fair-weather fans. You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer; beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. South Side." -O'Bama
"Oh, that's easy. White Sox. I'm not one of these fair-weather fans. You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer; beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. South Side." -O'Bama
by Hawk is God on Apr 28, 2009 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions
Its hard for me to picture Burish as the captain. Maybe its just because Toews is so serious and I can’t picture Burr acting like that, especially after hearing some of the cleaner things that he says to opponents and leaving the more X-rated stuff to the imagination.
You and I are gonna live forever
by Original Six on Apr 28, 2009 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
hello boys.
look forward to meeting you all in the second round.
i have no predictions yet, but i’m obviously calling for the canucks to win the series.
this will be fun.
you know how those rotten flamers like chanting "fuck the canucks" because it rhymes?
well, it just so happens that "fuck the flames" uses alliteration, for which more superior intellect is required compared to rhyme.
fuck the flames, and GO CANUCKS GO!
Yes, this will be fun
In your sig, the word “superior” is the superlative of “good”; you don’t require the “more.” In fact, it’s grammatically incorrect. But thanks all the same for so accurately demonstrating the intellectual capacity of the Vancouver fanbase.
As regards not predicting anything: I pick the Hawks to win, with the series not lasting more than 7 games. Just a hunch (rhymes with cunch).
But but...
Doesn’t it make it a ba-gillion times more awesomer when you stack comparative and superlative adjectives? I always thought that was the more better way to do it.
(Not to pick nits, but wouldn’t “best” be the superlative form of “good?” Also, someone could be “more superior” than someone else — there could be a hierarchy of superiority, such as government — but not in the sense she’s using it. Also, a strong masculine rhyme such as “fuck” and “nuck” is way more better, in my opinion, for a chant than a subtle, lame-ass alliteration.)
I, too, will not predict anything, but I do believe that the ’Hawks will win in 6 games, the series will be physical and hard-fought, Havlat will dominate with 3 goals and 4 assists, Khabibulin will have at least one shutout, and Luongo will get his skate caught on the ice with 3:46 left in the 3rd period of Game 2, resulting in an acute strain of his right gastrocnemius and causing him to leave the game, only to return for Game 3.
That said, fuck the ’Nucks (and their benighted fans).
NOW STOP IT RIGHT HERE
Oh haha..
haha….
you’re so clever.
I really admire these intellects behind a keyboard that probably got stuffed in lockers and had their lunches stolen as kids.
by Sean Zandberg on Apr 28, 2009 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Opposed to what? The people who end up working at gas stations reminiscing about how cool they were back in high school wondering what happened to their life?
You sound like some dumbshit high school kid.
by Bad Ass Burish on Apr 28, 2009 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions
How wrong can you be?
he will strain his left gastrocnemius, not his right. Man, what were you thinking?!?!
by burpchelischili on Apr 28, 2009 6:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Yep, best is the superlative; but superior is too in this case, it’s just a synonym. I dunno about the more superior thing, though; I think superior is an absolute in this grammatical sense, and so the proper construction would have to be something like “more nearly superior.” Like accurate … you can’t be more accurate — accurate is accurate. But I’m not staking my claim on this one, cause I’d want to look it up first.
Shit
I think you should do like my teachers in OK, just make it up as you go! Be more accurater
Don’t know why my English teachers didn’t like me correcting their grammar and spelling, I was just trying to help.
by burpchelischili on Apr 28, 2009 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions
I've always conceptualized "superior" as comparative more so than superlative.
If I’m your supervisor at McDonald’s, I’m your superior — but the manager is my superior.
And the accurate analogy doesn’t work. A rifle is certainly more accurate than a musket.
Fuck it. Hockey!
NOW STOP IT RIGHT HERE
(“accurate” is an absolute adjective, so you have to use “more nearly” in comparing)
(your example of superior uses it as a noun, so that changes things)
(we’re both stubborn knobs, neither of us likely to give up … which is good)
(I’m really hoping people have stopped reading this … including Matt chicagokill)
"Accurate" is not absolute!
We wouldn’t have the word “accuracy” if it were. There is equivalent of “accuracy” for “dead” or “square”: two absolute adjectives. There are not degrees of “deadness” or “squareness” — you’re either dead or you’re not. But there are degrees of accuracy, such as the rifle/musket example I mentioned earlier.
And I would argue that the implications of “superior” don’t change as the part of speech changes. And the more I think about it, I think “superior” can be used both comparatively and superlatively.
NOW STOP IT RIGHT HERE
Hmmmm.
This is good. See, I’m thinking of “accurate” in the sense of “free from error” or “correct, exact, without any mistakes” … in which case, if something is free from error, then that’s that, and anything else, in a comparative sense, can’t be more errorless. I’m not arguing that there aren’t degrees of accuracy, though; of course there are, I’m just arguing that the correct way to express that is to say “more nearly accurate” … a rifle is more nearly accurate than a musket. The word accurate denotes exactness in this sense, errorlessness (heh), an absolute on par with squareness. That’s more nearly accurately expressed than I managed previously. A rectangle is more nearly square than a circle.
I’ll relent with superior, though; the more I look at that one the more I can see it working both ways; but it’s not correct to say “more superior” in the sense of “more superior intellect” cause in that case it’s like saying “more better.”
I can’t believe this has gone on this long. I could talk about words all day. And the Hawks.
And no one has ever stolen my lunches.
Hell, I was the kid making fun of the kids whose lunch money got stolen.
(I never physically stole any myself.)
NOW STOP IT RIGHT HERE
"Never fuck a Canadian woman, she'll have a bigger dick than you."
My grandpa had a dirty mouth.
"Oh, that's easy. White Sox. I'm not one of these fair-weather fans. You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer; beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. South Side." -O'Bama
Praise for 2 and 7
from George Johnson of the Calgary Herald (today’s wrap-up column):
“A lot of the credit for the smothering of Iginla goes to Chicago’s shutdown defence tandem of Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook. If Team Canada 2010 GM Steve Yzerman is paying attention, he takes those two as a tandem, no questions asked. They complement each other
The quietly brilliant Keith, all positioning and quick stick, did as good a job as anyone has on the No. 12 since Nick Lidstrom of the Wings. How Chicago coach Joel Quenneville was able to get those two out there against Iginla in the games here in Calgary, with Mike Keenan having the last change, is a mystery rivalling Stonehenge."
I have a practical question
Are we playing “Stonehenge” tomorrow?
NO WE’RE NOT FUCKING PLAYING “STONEHENGE”
The answer is simple. Mike Keenan is a shitty coach.
Dennis Miller called
He wants his Stonehenge reference back
by burpchelischili on Apr 28, 2009 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions
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